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From New Monasticism Ireland

28 April 2016

From New Monasticism Ireland, I offer this prayer for today

The prayer has great powerWhich we pray with all our strength.It makes an embittered heart mellow,A sad heart joyful,A foolish heart wise,A timid heart bold,A weak heart strong,A blind heart clear-seeing,A cold heart ardent.It draws God who is great into a heart which is small.It drives the hungry soul up to the fullness of God.It unites the two lovers, God and soul, in a place of bliss,Where they converse long of love.

--Mechtild of Magdeburg, a Christian medieval mystic, Beguine, and first woman to write in German not Latin.